Russell’s home is nothing like the warm and inviting space Adam’s mom had created for him. Months after settling into life with Adam and his mother, young Julian was ripped away and sent to live with his uncle. He’d lost his parents – the two people who meant more to him than anything else – but he had gained friendship and acceptance.īut that was years ago, so long in the past that Julian can barely remember what it felt like to feel loved. Julian had found a safe place to land among the onslaught of thorns in his disastrously disrupted life. Bonding together over their struggles (Adam’s ADHD and Julian’s dyslexia), the boys became tentative friends at first, but when Julian’s parents were suddenly killed in a horrific accident and he was brought to live with Adam until a more permanent situation could be found, the trust between the boys beautifully thickened like setting cement. He had real skill in twisting a plot and characters into a molded piece of art. While nowhere close to perfect, Julian had a way of creating a story that bordered on the edges of magic. Adam was assigned a few weekdays to tutoring Julian in reading, and he can remember how impressed he was by the younger boy’s writing. The one thing Adam and Julian do have in common is a brief blip of their childhood that was spent together.
He can’t ever seem to do anything right anyway. Julian finds it’s just easier to give up than keep trying. He has no idea how to fit in his social skills and tastes were stunted at a young age, making it even harder for him to find a common ground around the other kids his age. On the rare occasions when he does show up to class, Julian is picked on mercilessly by the other kids his flaws and differences are cruelly laid bare like an open wound for all of his peers to see. Awkward and insecure in his own skin, he spends his time at high school desperately trying to disappear by melting into the background. Julian is the polar opposite, all dark instead of light. Pieces of his friends all help to make up who Adam is on the inside, and along with his amazing and supportive mother and his lingering ADHD, he is a shining star in a sea of darkness. He has a close-knit group of friends that hit all areas of the spectrum in a beautiful rainbow: the moody jock, an effervescent pixie, one starkly classic beauty, and a musical hipster. He’s self-deprecating, gently honest, and full of a certain spark of joy that spreads like wildfire. He’s handsome in that wonderfully unassuming way that so few teenage boys tend to be. “Īdam Blake is the boy that all girls dream of being with and all boys dream of being.
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